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Originally Posted by wdb
Well, that huge tree being suspended by my POTS line might have had something to do with it...  By the way we are back on the grid. The crews did an excellent job around here.
Obama wanted a big infrastructure bill that heavily focused on electrical and data. It was a good bill. But he spent his political capital on health care. Trump talks about it but does nothing. The country still needs it. |
I got into a debate with a numb nuts on a FB group about the state of Internet in the US. I mentioned the only way to get out of the situation we're in is to have some government intervention. The idiot jumps in and says how dare I bring up having big brother mess with his Internet. Mind you this all started as a topic someone posted about what to do with his data capped Internet. There were a bunch of fools that jumped on and said there's no way your Internet service is capped. I jumped on and said yes there are people with capped Internet. I am one of them. Mentioned my Comcast service has capped Internet but Comcast has chosen not to enforce it on the Blast tier in my area; which means Comcast can change their mind at any time. I also have Mediacom at my vacation home. That service is definitely capped. I forget the allocation per month but it's temporarily suspended for the next couple weeks due to this whole COVID thing.
The point I made was ISPs pay for all the lines they drop and the equipment running the backbone circuits interconnecting the various ISPs. I mentioned that I feel the Feds should take over the backbone and then provide fair/equal pricing for each ISP to connect up to it. Then the ISPs would be responsible for the circuits to their customers. The idiot still rambled on about not messing with his Internet and if we didn't like our situation to just start our own ISP. I stopped engaging the fool as I knew it was the same as me trying to get rock to understand this topic. If you look at other countries with much better Internet/comms infrastructure, there has been government support. I laughed when the ISPs here were bragging about 1 Gig to the home when other countries have had it for years.